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...understand that within a comparatively short time the Pullman Co. has issued orders to omit the customary cuspidor from the berth section of their sleeping cars...
From pamphlets issued by the Pullman Co. giving pictures of the early attempts to teach the American public how to use such an unaccustomed luxury as a clean bed on wheels, their greatest trouble was to keep people from going to bed with their shoes...
...seven years since Pullman Co. removed cuspidors from the berth sections of its sleeping cars. But when groups of men charter whole cars (e.g. baseball teams, conventioners), cuspidors are cheerfully supplied...
...recognize me. Mrs. Sarah E. White, the mistress of the waiting room, rushed up and lifted the President's head into her lap. He vomited a little. The station had been empty but the news spread and soon there were several thousand people about us. They got a Pullman mattress and carried the President to a room upstairs...
...will do, the Northern Pacific's crack limited of that bygone period moved westward out of Fargo early one morning. A mile west from town was the Big Slough across which ran an earthen fill. As the train reached this causeway a tornado struck it and turned every Pullman of the train on its side. But in this case no one was hurt...